Google Sheets will now suggest a pivot table based on a simple query. Just another automation feature?

MIT Technology Review - Google Automates Away Some Office Work“A milder view suggests that jobs will be radically changed, but not eradicated, as software takes over certain tasks. A study from McKinsey published in January predicted that half of today’s workplace tasks could be automated by 2055—but that only 5 percent of jobs would no longer need humans at all.”

“Having an intuition for how machine learning algorithms work – even in the most general sense – is becoming an important business skill. Machine learning scientists can’t work in a vacuum; business stakeholders should help them identify problems worth solving and allocate subject matter experts to distill their knowledge into labels for datasets, provide feedback on output, and set the objectives for algorithmic success.”

“It plays in a third, almost alien, way. …artificial intelligence can be quite different from the humankind. As AI becomes more commonplace, we might need to be conscious of such “alien” behavior….it sometimes makes seemingly crazy sacrifices, like offering up a bishop and queen to exploit a positional advantage that led to victory. In another case, the program moved its queen to the corner of the board, a very bizarre trick with a surprising positional value. “It’s like chess from another dimension,” Hassabis said.

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